Air Conditioning
Air Conditioning Tips
Keeping your HVAC systems maintained regularly is essential for optimizing energy efficiency and extending the lifespan of your equipment.
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Straight from the pipe pros. Explore helpful guides for your home comfort systems.
Plumbing
Touch-Free Faucets: Green Plumbing That’s Fun and Easy!
One fun, high-tech, and relatively inexpensive way to go green is to install a touch-free faucet in your kitchen or bathroom. Touch-free faucets work on a very
Drainage
Troubleshooting Drain Problems: Some Pointers from Delta
It’s Saturday afternoon in Delta and you are preparing dinner for a number of guests. The kitchen is packed with groceries and you start to clean a lot of
Water Quality
Types of Drinking Water Filters
There are not many things more important than making sure that your home drinking water supply is safe and free of contaminants. All kinds of things can appear
Indoor Air Quality
Ultra Violet Lighting
With a state of the art home comfort system in place, complimented by a high tech indoor air cleaner, you may think you’re set to take on climate and
Drainage
Unclog a Floor Drain in Deroche: Complicating Factors
It is never fun to wander down into your Deroche basement only to find that your floor drain has backed up. This is not a situation that will take care of
Plumbing
Burnaby Plumbing Tip: What Is a Flapper Valve
The toilet in your Burnaby home is not an overly complicated piece of equipment. But in order to work properly, it does require that all of its parts are in the
Indoor Air Quality
Understanding House Ventilation Options
All the fancy air quality control tools in the world are useless if you don’t have a good ventilation system to circulate air through your home each day.
Drainage
Water and Energy Saving Tips
The cost of the heat, air conditioning and water supply to your home continues to rise – it’s no wonder you want to cut your bills so much. But, how can you do
Heating
Warning Signs of a Broken Furnace
Regular maintenance and evaluation of the condition of a home’s furnace is essential to discovering problems before they affect the ability to safely and
Water Quality
Water Conservation Tips
Stage 3 water restrictions went into effect in the metro area on July 20, 2015 as our water reserves fell to a 12-year low sitting near 70%.
Water Quality
Water Filtering Faucets
The last thing you want is to be drinking or cooking with contaminated water. Of course, you can always opt for a full house water filtration system
Plumbing
The Ease Water Saving
Here are some of our favorite water-saving tips. They are easy to incorporate into your lifestyle – and can save you hundreds or even thousands of gallons of
Water Quality
WaterSense Labels
Many people know about the EPA’s EnergyStar certification, which is a third-party certification system that verifies manufacturers’ claims about the energy
Plumbing
What Causes Low Water Pressure?
It is unfortunate that most people do not think about their plumbing systems until they have a problem with them. A common problem is low water pressure
Heat Pumps
What Happens When You Neglect Heat Pump Maintenance in Vancouver
What Happens When You Neglect Heat Pump Maintenance in Vancouver Just like any HVAC system, the heat pump in your home needs routine maintenance and yearly
Drainage
How to Change a Drain Trap
Have you ever noticed that U-shaped length of pipe below your Burnaby home’s bathroom or kitchen sink? Does it ever seem to you like it doesn’t make sense to
Heating
Boiler Tips from Delta: Basic Boiler Maintenance
The boiler in your Delta home is a sensitive piece of equipment that needs routine maintenance and repairs. Regularly maintaining your boiler is especially
Heating
Benefits of Replacing Your Furnace
You are about to make one of the largest purchases in your life – a new furnace. Maybe your old furnace is on life support and needs immediate replacement or
Plumbing
Bathtub Replacement
A bathtub replacement is not something you will have to worry about every day. However, there will likely come a time when you do need to get rid of your home’s
Drainage
Bathtub Drain Plumbing: Things You Should Know
When we think of clogged drains and plumbing problems, we most frequently think of toilets and kitchen sinks, but one of the most common drains to cause
Indoor Air Quality
Attic Insulation: Does it Save You Money?
While you may not spend too much time up in your attic in the winter – or at any time of year for that matter – the conditions up there can end up having a
Air Conditioning
What Is a Whole House Pressurization Test and Should I Get One?
If you have a forced air heating or cooling system in your home, you also have a system of ducts through which that heated or cooled air circulates.
Heating
Caring for AFUE.
If you’ve been shopping for a furnace, chances are you’ve noticed that each furnace has its own annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) rating.